Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-04-19 Thread Dominique Devriese
Achim Bohnet writes: > I'm not sure if it's okay to c&p qts debug.html in a (L)GPL manpage. in a GPL manpage: yes, otherwise: probably not, but it's not like they're going to sue you over c&p'ing some stuff out of their docs.. cheers domi

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-04-19 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Thursday 15 April 2004 17:42, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:17:34 +0100 Achim Bohnet wrote: > > My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that describes > > the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more detail). From all > > other manpages just us

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-04-15 Thread Dominique Devriese
Nathaniel W Turner writes: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:17:34 +0100 Achim Bohnet wrote: >> My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that >> describes the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more >> detail). From all other manpages just use a reference to this >> manpage. >

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-04-15 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:17:34 +0100 Achim Bohnet wrote: > My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that describes > the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more detail). From all > other manpages just use a reference to this manpage. Have you made any progress on this

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Cheney
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:43:55AM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 23:03, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > Achim Bohnet writes: > > > > > My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that > > > describes the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more > > >

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-28 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 23:03, Dominique Devriese wrote: > Achim Bohnet writes: > > > My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that > > describes the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more > > detail). From all other manpages just use a reference to this > > manpag

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-28 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:03:20PM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote: > > Btw. is there a script that generates from a --help ouput an sgml > > manpage skeleton? > > I wrote a script that generates nroff manpage code directly once. > It's currently in kdesdk/scripts/kdemangen.pl. Using nroff might

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:17:34PM +0100, Achim Bohnet wrote: > Hi, > > looking at the kde man pages I note that the qt and kde standrd options > are more or less listed and described. Often they hide the actual > funtionality of the program. There's a good reason for --help-{qt,kde,all} > and

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-27 Thread Dominique Devriese
Achim Bohnet writes: > My idea now was now to create a kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that > describes the generic kde and qt options (later maybe in more > detail). From all other manpages just use a reference to this > manpage. If possible one could even create templates in kdelibs-dev > that ar

Re: simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-27 Thread Ben Burton
> My idea now was now to create a > kde-options(?) manpage^Wsgml that describes the generic kde and > qt options (later maybe in more detail). From all other manpages > just use a reference to this manpage. FWIW, I think this is an excellent idea. Ben.

simplifying & enhancing kde manpages

2004-01-27 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hi, looking at the kde man pages I note that the qt and kde standrd options are more or less listed and described. Often they hide the actual funtionality of the program. There's a good reason for --help-{qt,kde,all} and not just --help listing everything ;) My idea now was now to create a kd